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Grant information can be found here: [0] Supposedly for research from 2014 to 2019. During much of this time period gain of function was supposed to be prohibi
by cheaprentalyeti 3y ago
Grant information can be found here: [0]
Supposedly for research from 2014 to 2019. During much of this time period gain of function was supposed to be prohibited.
[0]: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529 https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529
- yawpitch 3y agoThere is no mention of anything even resembling gain of function in that email or the linked grant information. There is mention of extremely basic observational study of naturally occurring coronaviruses in Chinese bat populations. You know, the kind of research that is extremely important and utterly sensible in the real world.
- cheaprentalyeti 3y agoHopefully this is something we'll be able to search on and find out what was really being done. It would be nice if that database actually had links to any of the research papers that resulted.
- yawpitch 3y agoConsidering you’ve got the name of the Principal Investigator you can already do that search: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=HBjU-38AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=HBjU-38AAAAJ... They’ve published a lot on basic overview study of zoonotic infectious virus prevalence and transmission mechanisms. Of course if you’re at all like that X/Twitter user you seem to be looking for a smoking gun to confirm your, very likely unfounded, pre-existing beliefs. The grant funded exactly and precisely what it described, observational investigation into bat coronaviruses and the risks and mechanism of transmission to humans. SARS-CoV2 is and was exactly such a zoonotic transmission event… the only real question is why did humanity react so badly to an inevitable event?